Authors:
  • There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

    Interview with Jordan E. Rosenfeld, www.writersdigest.com. August 27, 2008.